I know I do. I couldn’t travel to the conference, so the webcast is the next best step for me. The Fused Logic Team is doing the casting, which is pretty darn sweet. I’ve seen their work before, and I’m willing to come into work extra early to catch the broadcast. For French Translation, please… Read more »

Fair Warning: The blog post below and associated information candidly depicts the manner in which an innovative change agent was sacrificed on the alter of maintaining the status quo. Recommend any change agents lacking a forceful personality turn back now. Failure to do so may lead you to question your ability to effect organizational change.Last… Read more »

Obviously everyone is familiar with the incredibly tragic damage that continues to take place while I write and you read this regarding the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. There will be plenty of time for everyone to weigh in on how this was allowed to happen and not able to be fixed when a solution… Read more »

There is an experiment at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to change how government works. The idea is to stop measuring how much time an employee spends at the office but rather to measure how productive the employee is. The employee sets their own working hours and negotiates with their supervisor on what they… Read more »

The government of Canada has recently put together a group to come up with techniques and best practices to measure social media in the public sector. We’d like to see what other governments are doing to measure their use of social media–whether it’s quantitative or qualitative and what kind of performance measurement frameworks are being… Read more »

Video is now available for Carl Malamud’s address entitled Law.Gov: America’s Operating System, Open Source, given at Gov 2.0 Expo 2010, on 27 May 2010, in Washington, DC, USA. The address details new findings about copyright restrictions on legal materials in the U.S., and offers an update on the progress of the Law.gov legal open… Read more »

On Memorial Day we must all remember that the story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots. Poet Maya Angelou reminded us how important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! So take some time during your long weekend to visit… Read more »

(cross posted on CG-LIMS Project Blog on Intelink-U) I’m going to try to boil down three days of learnings from the Gov 2.0 Expo into a single post. It is written from the perspective of a person currently serving as a Project Manager on a major IT system acquisition for the Coast Guard. My three… Read more »

A number of software applications and platforms are now available for creating visualizations (i.e., graphical depictions) of legislation. Here are some of them: Compendium — an argument mapping application, distributed free-of-charge — has been applied to legislation (see pages 129-132) by participants in the EU’s LEX-IS Project. (See the description in Loukis et al., Using… Read more »

Discussion

Just last month IBM announced their much-anticipated investment in innovation. $4 billion will be devoted to areas such as cloud, analytics, mobile and security. The massive company has implemented “strategic imperatives” this year that are working to match the efforts of government to propel our nation into the technology-dominated world while aiding in the development… Read more »

As much as I would love to tell you to “get up and move! [to mobile]” ….you don’t have to go quite that far to reach your customers, encourage engagement, and most importantly, get the word out of whatever it is that you want to get out! You just have to have your move-to-mobile goals… Read more »

One more thing – The Washington Nationals Government Employee Appreciation Day is Monday, May 4, 2015. Get your discount tickets at http://pps.convio.net/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=8065.